Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History de Fawn M. Brodie - March 1974

New York: W. W. Norton, March 1974. Hardcover. First Edition, sixth printing. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Prior owner's mark to title page, otherwise text unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Edgewear to jacket including chipping and short tears at spine ends and corners. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 594 pages. Contents: The semi-transparent shadows -- The parents -- A sense of family -- A capacity for involvement -- A problem with the forbidden -- Martha Jefferson -- The revolutionary -- Jefferson and independence; the domestic problem -- The flight from power -- Jefferson and the war -- Jefferson writes a book -- The two Marthas -- The return to politics -- Restlessness and torment -- My head and my heart -- The second interlude -- Sally Hemings -- The revolutionary goes home -- The satellite sons -- Disillusionment in Eden -- Triangles at Monticello -- Candidate contre coeur -- Callender -- Jason -- Betrayal -- Jefferson under attack -- Death, hatred, and the use of silence -- Jefferson and Burr -- A genius for peace -- Like a patriarch of old -- Writer of letters -- The Monticello tragedy -- Reminiscences of Madison Hemings -- Reminiscences of Israel Jefferson -- "My head and my heart" -- The family denial.